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I didn’t know this was the root of the ‘do not want’ meme. TIL. If I was to translate bootleg copy of Star Wars I think Darth Vader was probably trying to expre
by eloisius 4y ago
I didn’t know this was the root of the ‘do not want’ meme. TIL. If I was to translate bootleg copy of Star Wars I think Darth Vader was probably trying to express ‘幹！’
Jokes aside, yes that make sense, you could express your regret or refusal by saying 我不要！ or you could say something like ‘how awful!’ Chinese translated literally sometimes feels so corny.
- AlanYx 4y agoThese days a lot of Mandarin video translations do just use "bù!" or "oh bù!", even though it's not grammatically correct and technically meaningless, just because it tends not to ruin the lipsyncing.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoThe Taiwanese dub of "We don't talk about Bruno" uses Oh不 (actually, more like Woh不) as a lyric sung by the backup chorus. (In English, the chorus is singing "no, no", which is a callback to the heavily focused lyric "we don't talk about Bruno-no-no-no". This is not true in the dub, where that lyric is translated as if the "no"s were pure repetition: the dub says "women bu ti bulunuo-nuo-nuo-nuo".) Lip syncing can't be a concern, because the chorus is not visible. The background characters on screen are not singing.